Galen Rowell

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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